Broadway Madness
{{short description|1927 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Broadway Madness
| image = Broadway Madness 1928 newspaper.jpg
| caption = Contemporary advertisement
| director = Burton L. King
| producer = Samuel Zierler
Harry Chandlee
| writer = Harry Chandlee
| narrator =
| starring = Marguerite De La Motte
Donald Keith
Betty Hilburn
| music =
| editing =
| cinematography = Arthur Reeves
| studio = Excellent Pictures
| distributor = Excellent Pictures
| released = {{film date|1927|10|1}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Broadway Madness is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Marguerite De La Motte, Donald Keith, and Betty Hilburn.Munden p. 90
Plot
A young farmer in upstate New York City becomes obsessed with a Broadway actress due to her radio broadcasts. She later becomes involved in a plot to defraud him of his inheritance, but instead falls in love and confesses everything to him.
Cast
- Marguerite De La Motte as Maida Vincent
- Donald Keith as David Ross
- Betty Hilburn as Josie Dare
- Margaret Cloud as Mary Vaughn
- George Cowl as Henry Ableton
- Louis Payne as Jared Ableton
- Robert Dudley as Thomas
- Orral Humphrey as Larry Doyle
- Tom Ricketts as Lawrence Compton
- Alfred Fisher as Ev
- Jack Haley as Radio Announcer
Preservation
With no copies listed in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4000/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Broadway Madness] Broadway Madness is a lost film.
References
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Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0017702}}
{{Burton L. King}}
Category:1927 romantic drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language romantic drama films
Category:Films directed by Burton L. King
Category:Lost American romantic drama films
Category:Silent American romantic drama films
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